Had a small chuckle, reading this. As a typical man, I've been fascinated with breasts, along with the guy who published a magazine I used to, "read," Hugh Hefner....LOL Just think of all the attention we all gave to Anna Nicole Smith, and how much attention would she have gotten, had she been blessed with an A cup?

As an older man, I've had to have a mammogram on two occasionas. I think that one percent of breast cancer occurs in men. It is truly a strange experience to have whatever passes as, what they now call, Man-Txxx, squeezed in to that machine. Need I say anything more? LOL

yes yes double ds

Men are often accused of having some sort of power fixation on their penis. Frankly, I disagree. My penis doesn't make me feel one bit more powerful. Nor do I see my penis as a projection of myself, or a 'gun' or anything else. It's just my penis. I'm glad I have it; but I'm also thankful for two arms, two legs and a functional brain.

WOMEN on the other hand are OBVIOUSLY fixated on their breasts and to many of them the measure of their prowess is the size of their bust. This is evident by the way they display them. For a man to stare at their semi exposed mammary glands is to have dominion over the man. Even amongst themselves women have a social pecking order, largely based on the size, shape and perceived beauty of their bust.

Female breasts are nothing more than oversize, over developed, minimally functional, vestigially obsolete sweat glands....nothing more.

Think about it. How many men do you see with their penis' sticking out for everyone to admire? We'd be arrested. How many women do you see with their teats flapping around like a dairy cow? Now...draw your own conclusions.

I would like to tell you a story about a dear friend in Ohio and an RN. She has healthy breasts; and this is not a tear jerker...

Jerilynn Leckrone, BSN, RN returned to academia to obtain a nursing degree in 1992. She developed the Breastology Bag™ to meet a requirement for a nursing course assignment at Capital University in Columbus, OH.

She created this breast self-exam patient teaching tool. By sewing one soft sculpture breast after another, the entire story of breast self-exam was told and 6 soft sculpture breasts were born! After receiving enthusiastic reviews from her nursing instructor and nurse classmates, she took the sculptures in a tote bag to the OSU nursing units where I tested their credibility. She taught small groups of patients about breast health and breast self-exam for 13 years.

You may learn more about the the Breastology Bag™ at http://www.breastologybag.com/about/...I'm not hustling her product as much as opening doors to a very cool tool for home use.

Calm down Electra....:)

Very appropriate and mature article, Renee. My dear mother passed-on from having cancer in one of her breasts; diagnosed and operated on too late, I must say, as the disease permeated into her bone marrow. That's what you get for smoking, I told her, lovingly. But we lost her at her age of 83. While my wife was pregnant (in Bangor), and we had a normal OB/GYN examination at the doctor (Aloupis) office, just prior to her giving birth, it was discovered she had a lump in her left breast. Well, not knowing anything about mammary glands as a guy, I was totally confused when the doctor at the EMMC informed my wife over the telephone that no exploratory operation was necessary, as the "lump" was an enlarged vein, and due to her not having children or being active at any younger age than she was at that time. She was 42 years old then and delivered a perfectly normal child, albeit through Cesarean due to her cervix was too small. But we were relieved her "lump" in the breast was non-serious.

Through prescribed, adequate and regular personal checking of the breasts and routine professional (yearly) examinations, the woman should be considerate enough to program this type of examination and checkup on the yearly basis. No doubt about it, any physician and surgeon advanced in the medical profession enough in the removal of breast tumors could tell you, a careful, kind lifestyle to oneself should be the first step in taking care of the breasts. Start with a healthful diet, and go on from there. Don't smoke or overdo the alcohol, either.

Very well done story. This is the kind of reporting we need to have more of. Thanks.

Anyone who thinks there is no connection between Obama's professed goal to "reduce health care costs" and the recent announcements about the changes in recommended medical testing timeframes are fools who obviously voted for Obama in the first place.

Renee. You funny! I like boobies.

A lot.

SantiniS, it is VERY lucky you had the DR you had and not his partner, Hughes.